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Moderator note: I split this from http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 16&t=45246 as it is not about listening while recording- Gale

I am new to this forum. I have been able to use win 7, record and listen at same time. But when I play it back the music jumps from track 1 to track 5 back to track 1 etc. I am recording with a UCB turntable and bought a phono amp The turnable is connected to the phone amp with stero cable then stero cable to computer speaker. That should work. If someone could help with my inability to get the tracks correct.

okie75 wrote:I am new to this forum. I have been able to use win 7, record and listen at same time. But when I play it back the music jumps from track 1 to track 5 back to track 1 etc. I am recording with a UCB turntable and bought a phono amp The turnable is connected to the phone amp with stero cable then stero cable to computer speaker. That should work. If someone could help with my inability to get the tracks correct.

Do you mean a USB turntable? If so you can also connect it via the USB cable to the USB port of the computer. It will provide RIAA equalization and pre-amplification.

Playback in Audacity is in a straight line starting from zero at far left of the timeline. So if you recorded an album side at one go in one Audacity track, it should play back like that. Are you saying the green playback cursor in Audacity does not move smoothly from left to right? Or are you talking about playback in a WAV file you exported from Audacity, or in a CD you burnt from that WAV?

If you stopped recording after each track on the album so that each new album track is in its own track in Audacity, those Audacity tracks are mixed together when you export. You would have to drag each subsequent track to right with Time Shift Tool so that it started after the end of the previous one.

Exporting multiple tracks is easier with Export Multiple.



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Thanks Gale. Yes I meant UBS. My original question I think I have resolved. What I am trying to work out is this. I Have recorded a LP successfully and it has 8 different songs. So then I go to Audacity and find my recorded LP in my library. So now my file is open. I want to name each song, but somehow I'm not getting the jist of it. I have gone to the examples and it tells me what to do. I have Audacity Beta and Win 7.. I go to tracks and it says to click on A dd Label at selection. Then I start playing first song. When it comes to end. This is where I am stumped. Do I hit pause to allow me enough time to type in name of second song? Somehow it starts playing the first song again. Hope this isn't to confusing. Any help? Thanks

okie75 wrote:I want to name each song, but somehow I'm not getting the jist of it. I have gone to the examples and it tells me what to do. I have Audacity Beta and Win 7.. I go to tracks and it says to click on A dd Label at selection. Then I start playing first song. When it comes to end. This is where I am stumped. Do I hit pause to allow me enough time to type in name of second song? Somehow it starts playing the first song again. Hope this isn't to confusing. Any help? Thanks

Have you clicked and dragged a selection region in the track corresponding to the first song, or only clicked, before you add the label?

If you drag a region then Tracks > Add Label At Selection, you can click the green Play button to play that selection and Stop to stop playing. At that stage the label is still open for editing, so just use the keyboard to type then hit ENTER to close the label. That selection will always play until you click and drag (or click) somewhere farther down the track to mark the next song.

If you are trying to label songs while the track is playing, use Tracks > Add Label At Playback Position (CTRL + M) - no, you don't have to pause playback to type the label. Type the label then when you hear the next song start, do CTRL + M again to place a label at the start of that song and type its label while it's still playing.

Usually it is easier to add labels at a point, not drag a selection and label the selection. If your songs are separated by quiet parts, try Analyze > Silence Finder to add a label in those silent parts automatically. Those labels will separate the songs when you export them (the song starts after the label). Then just click in each label to type the name of each song.



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